Sanitary drinking-fountain.



IN VENTOR,

A TTOR NE Y.

L. A. COOPER. SANITARY DRINKING FOUNTAIN.

APPLICATION FILED AUG 3. 1911.

Patented July 2, 1912.

Zes Zz'eA. Capez; B Y Y1 UNITED sTA' Es PATENT OFFICE.

LESLIE A. COOPER, 0F SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OI? ONE-HALF TO GEORGE W. KIMBALL, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS SANITARY DRINKING-FOUNTAIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patel l ted J lily 2,1912.

Application filed August 3, 1911. Serial No. 642,070.

To all whom it may concern:'

Be it. known that. I, Lusmn A. COOPER, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of -.\;[assachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvemenis in Sanitary Drinking-Foam thins, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in sanitary drinking fountains of a kind in which a horizontal water pipe having at its free end an upstanding nozzle or delivery appliance is effective, under horizontal swinging movement of such pipe. to secure the opening of a valve' which. controls the flow of water from the supply so that the stream or jet will issue in a vertical or fountain like manner at the upstanding nozzle tobe drunk thereat,such description of fountain also. comprising a basin shaped member surrounding the drinking nozzle and with which a pipe is connected in an encircling and inclosing relation to the water delivery pipe and which leads to a waste conduit.

The object. of the present invention is to provide aesanitary drinking fountain of the class above indicated which will be not only entirely eflicient and operative without derangement for-an indefinite time, but which, moreover, by reason of the comparatively few parts comprised therein and the man ner of their combination and cooperative arrangement, permits of the production of a fountain of the greatest possible simplicity and cheapness.

-The invention is described in conjunction with. the accompanying drawings and is defined in the claims.

' In the draviingsz-Figure 1 is a substantially central vertical section through the; drinking untain. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on a larger scale of important, components of the device given for clearer illustr a. tion. Fig. 3 is a central sectional View of the water delivery appliance, at the drinkin end of the fountain andcomprising a v0 umetric governor or regulator. Fig; 4

is a'plan view of Fig. 3. i I

In the drawings, A represents a stationary vertical Water supply pipe which i's-open at, its upper end and is surrounded by a vertical stationary water waste pipe B of coni in the partition.

siderably larger diameter and the upper end of which is located somewhat below the upper end of the pipe A.

0 represents a stationai z annular body which in its specific construction as here showncomprises an axially vertical annular section a screw engaged with the upper portion of the waste pipe, another annular section above and in axial alinement'with the first. named se t ion. internally screw threaded, and provided with an external outwardly extending flange 0 at its bottom and a flanged and internally threaocd coupling ring dwhich unites said sections a and and confines the packing ring a between their abuttlng ends.

i) represents a head having an inclosed ch.;.-nber f therein with which the upper end,

of the supply pipe communicates, and also having a passage 9 leading horizontally from the chamber f through a lateral extension or boss 9 The said head D is made with a depending hub like POltiOll 72 provided with external screw threads 2' and having engagement with the internal screw thread j in the upper portion or section of the aforenamed annular body so that when, 4 the chan'ibered head D is rotat'ively moved in one direction, sayfor a halfor quarter wall of such hole .being'screw threaded of corresponding pitch to the threads'i and j of the aforementioned screw engaging parts I) and 11., while the upper end portion of the water supply pipe is correspondingly threaded for engagement through such hole Referring to the valve E and the manner of its inchisionlin the chambered head;-

such head has a screw threaded bore-M through its top in axialalinement with the supply pipe; and in a lower portion of bore theexternally 'threzuled valve plug I the have a locking engagement against the -D for free communication with adjustably engaged and downi'vardlv protrudes into the chamber for eoactioii with delivery end of the supply pipe. The lower end of the valve plug is provided with a seating disk or packing 0, and the valve plug has a screw driver slot in its upper end.

Another screw plug 9 1S engagedin the upper portion of the said threaded bore 12 to top of the valve plug, so that when the valve is properly ad usted and the plug g tightly set against 1t, there can be no shifting or displacement of the valve relatively to the ,rotative head D.

A water delivering pipe arm-G is connect-1 ed with the head as shown in Fig. '1 in such manner that the passage therethrough-.-has

communication with the horizontal passage" 9 which leads from the ch mber f in the head; and'another pipe H 0 large diameter surrounds connects with the lateral extension k of the through the head the waste pipe. The pipes G and H havingthe passage between .them' are both connected at their outer ends by a screw engagement with a fitting J havin a vertical internal passage 8 and an upward iy opening separated chamber or passage 6. 4

At the upper end the depending hub like portion 0 comprises an upstandin water del zle a, and it has in t e chambered body below the nozzle a volumetric governor a for regulating .the'fiow of the water for delivery, fountain like, at the nozzle. This governor comprises no part of my present application but it is illustrated as a deslrable provision for the fountain. The delivery nozzle is surrounded by a basin L, the bottom of which opens into the chamber 25 in the fitting J with which the waste pipe" arm H has connection.

M represents the casing which surrounds. and is rotat-ively adjustable relatively to the upper portion of the aforenamed annular body C, the same here bemg shown as resting on a couplin rin (Z. Thls casing M hasa boss or hu w mternall thereof at its lower portion through whlch a set screw wis inserted for binding the casing M when adjusted tightly to the annular body. Q, represents a spiral spring for which 'said casing'forms the closure, such spring encircling the upper section of the annular body C and has its ends respectively secured as indicated at w and m to the chambered head D and to the casmg'M. The casing serves in'addition to a means for inclosing, protecting, and concealmg the spring, also a means through the rotation thereof of regulating the tension of the spicomparatively the pipe G- and Y tical stationary waste mg the supply pipe of t-he passe e s a water delivery appliance K is provided. This ivery-noz- The engagement of the dependin hub like portion of the chambered head with the upper portlon of the stationary annular body is by screw threads of comparatively] by a comparatively quick pitch so that small revoluble movement of the head and the parts carried in'ihorizontal'egrt." sion thereof, the valve, whichflis as one wit the head, will have ample opening movement upwardly away from the top of the water upp y r p A- 1. In a sanitary drinking fountain, in combination, a vertical stationary water supply pipe openfat its upper end, and a verpipe loosely surroundand having its upper end located below the upper end of the latter; a stationary annular member connected with and extending above the top of the waste pipe, a head-havin an inclosed chamber therein into which t 'e upper open end ,of the supply pipe communicates, also havmg a .passage'leadin horizontally from said chamber, having a epending portion screw engaged with said stationary annular member, and also having apassage separated 'from the chamber in such head communicating a horizontal extension, the said chambered with the waste pipe, passage and also having head having a'valve member therein coacting with the delivery end of the supply pipe,

a comparatively small horizontal pipe connected with the horizontal passage of said head and provided with an upwardly extending water delivery appliance, another and larger horizontal pipe loosely surroun d ing the said smaller pipe, having its passage in communication with the aforementioned horizontal passage-extension, and a basin shaped member surrounding the water delivery appliance and having communication at its bottom with the said larger pipe.

- 2. In a sanitary drinking fountain, in

combination, a vertical stationary water sup'-- ply pipe open at its upper end, a stationary pipe somewhat below its upper end, a head having an' in'closed chamber therein with which the upper end of the supply pipe comlar member having a screw threaded portion with which the screw threaded portion.

of the head engages, and said chambered head having a valve member therein c'oact-- annular member surrounding the supply 712 0 t horizontal pipe conrected with the horivuontal passage of said head provided with an upwardly extending water delivery ap pliance, a casing surr unding and rotatively adjustable relatively to said annular memher having a spring therein in reaction between such casing and said head for impartn'igrotativc return movement to the'latter, and means for the confinement of said casmg in its adjustment on the annular memher. p

3; Ip 'a sanitary drinking fountain, in combination, a stationary water supply pipe open at its upper end, and a vertical stationary waste' pipe loosely surrounding the supply pipe having its upper end located below the upper end of the latter, a stationary annular body comprising an axially vertical annular'section screw "engaged with the upper portion of the waste pipe, another anhular section above and in axial alinement with the first named section, internally screw threaded and externally flanged at its lower portion, and a. flanged coupling ring u'n'iting said sections, a head having an inclosed chamber therein with'which the upper end of the supply pipecommunicates, also having a passage leading horizon ally from said chamber and provided with'a depending hublike portion externally threaded and screw engaged within the upper section of the aforesaid annular body and having an annular passage therethrough, the vertical portion of which communicates with the upper open end of the waste pipe while with its horizontal portion a pipe of comparatively large diameter is connected, a valve member fixed within the chambered head and coacting with the delivery end of the supply pipe, a comparatively small horizontal pipe connected with the horizontal passage of the heanzl which leads to the valve chamber therein a d is provided with an upwardly extending'water delivery appliance, and a basin shaped member surrounding the water delivery appliance having communication at its bottom with the said comparatively large horizontal pipe.

4.1n a sanitary drinking fountain, in

combination, a'stationary water supply pipe nected with the horizontal passage per edge of open at its upper end, and a vertical'stationary waste pipe loosely surrounding the supply pipe having its upper end located below the upper end of the latter, a stationary annular body connected at its lower portion to the upper end of the waste pipe, and having screw threads within its upper portion; a'head having an inclosed chamber therein with which the upper end of the supply pipe communicates, also having a passage leading horizontally from said chamber, provided with a depending hub like portion externally threaded and screwengag'ed within the upper portion of the annula? body, having a passage therethrough comprisinga vertical portion which communicates with the upper open pipe of the waste pipe and-having a horizontal extension 'with which a; horizontal pipe of comparatively large diameter is connected, the said headhaving :1 depending annular flange widely encircling the upper portion of the depending hub like part of suchhead, a valve member. fixed within the chambered head aigdcoact-ing with the delivery end of the supply pipe, a comparatively small horizontal-pipe conof the head which leads to the valve chamber therein and is provided with an upwardly extending water delivery appliance, a basin shaped member surrounding the water delivery appliance having communication at its bottom with the said comparatively large horizontal pipe, a casing surrounding and rotatively adjustable relatively to the upper portion of said annular body, about the ugwhich the aforenamed depen ingannular flange is disposed, and a spiral spring in said casing, surrounding the annular body having itsiends respectively secured to thechambered head and to the casing, and a screw for detachably confining the casing in its rotative adjustment relatively to the annular body.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LESLIE A. COOPER. Witnesses:

' G. R. DmscoLL,

-WM. S. BELLO\\'S. 

